Isaac's CADE 1500s2/ Peninsula Reef Build

[Isaac Alves]

Nope…roll still has floss left. Hmmmm.

the app did update this morning to version 6.4.4.

after launching the app it asked me to sign in. And now the current roll is not appearing in the view…

and looking at my roll history the past roll started in 1969?!

Uhhhh…any RedSea reps out there?

 

[Isaac Alves]

So I went ahead and changed the roll yesterday. And magically, after clicking the new roll install in the app, everything came back (what gives?)

I was able to get 22 feet out of my roll. So I'm wondering if at some point the onboard system wigs out? I even had about 2 feet left.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Got my order from @FraghouseCorals

I picked up 8 pieces...

I figured I should at least hit the Free shipping threshold so these all cost me $321.00.

They all look great.

Temp acclimating them in sump while I work. Then I'll clip off frag plug, dip in Bayer and mount on my plug and set them on a frag rack to acclimate for lighting and flow. Then in a couple days I'll mount.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Little of a hurried glue job. I love that the BRS Glue doesn't release any residue once it hits the water. But these @FraghouseCorals look nice. They'll sit here at the bottom of the tank for a day or two. I've also turned off the T5 and left the G6s run. The PAR here is like 150.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Also got a new buddy today from www.fishotel.com.

Fully quarantined and prophylactically treated Copperband Butterfly. I'm going to hope this time's the charm. Every fish from fishotel has been amazingly healthy and active.

 

[Petcrazyson]

Also got a new buddy today from www.fishotel.com.

Fully quarantined and prophylactically treated Copperband Butterfly. I'm going to hope this time's the charm. Every fish from fishotel has been amazingly healthy and active.

Good luck!

 

[Isaac Alves]

Getting in touch with Travis at @FishOfHex

Been talking to him for several days now and he convinced me to utilize a plate to work as a temporary lid while my current skimmer cup lid gets sent out to him so he could manufacture a CO2 recirculating attachment for the Ultra Reef Typhoon UKD-200. Finally got around to doing a plate contraption and testing it today...

Found a good BPA free plastic plate at Target for 50-cents this morning and a plastic birthday plate that seemed to work for downward direction of skimmate:

Drilled some air holes as well:

I think this could work.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Decided to try Fauna Marin’s Total Reef ICP kit for my first ICP test. Went with them just based on the latest @ReefBum Rappin’ With ReefBum YouTube show with Mike Palleta. The description of the very information dense data output, along with specific elements like fluoride caught my interest.

Here’s a link to that episode:

Rappin' With ReefBum: Guest - Mike Paletta

Rappin' With ReefBum is a LIVE talk show with host Keith Berkelhamer and guests from the reef keeping community. In this episode I chat with author and hobby...

www.youtube.com

I went ahead and setup the aquarium profile already:

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For reference:

Fauna Marin Reef ICP Total Tests:

Basic Values:
Conductivity, Density, rel. density, Salinity, PH, Alkalinity, CO2, Acid binding capacity, Smell, Watercolor

Macro Elements:
Chloride, Sodium, Magnesium, Sulfate, Calcium, Potassium, Bromine, Strontium, Boron, Fluoride

Nutrients:
Nitrate, Nitrite, Totalphosphorus, Ortho-Phosphate, Silicate

Trace Elements/Contaminants: Aluminium, Antimony, Arsenic, Barium, Beryllium, Lead, Cadmium, Chromium, Cobalt, Iron, Iodine, Copper, Lanthanum, Lithium, Manganese, Molybdenum, Nickel, Mercury, Sulfur, Selenium, Silver, Titanium, Vanadium, Tungsten, Zinc, Tin, and Zirconium.

Relation Values:
Salinityline, Dynamic Elements, Relevantline

RO Water:
20 different contaminants, nutrients, and trace elements.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Noting the air intake inlet ID tube size for the Typhoon UKD-200 Skimmer:

5/16”

 

[Isaac Alves]

Pictures of new members of reef

Particularly pictures of the Blue Jaw trigger fish from @OceanDevotionLA

He’s finally coming out and aggressively eating.

And these two little devils:

The Copperband is from fishotel.com and the Two Barred rabbit is from @OceanDevotionLA

 

[Isaac Alves]

I’m struggling to keep my calcium levels low. I’m sure it’s the Kalkwasser usage and my corals are all small and relatively new so they're still acclimating to the environment. Hoping they start pulling carbonate out of the water at some point.

Today's parameters:

 

[Isaac Alves]

Not a good day for one of my new quarantined fish. I got two fish from a quarantine vendor in Southern California called Ocean Devotion. I got a Blue Jaw Trigger and a Two Bar Rabbit. Unfortunately the Rabbit fish passed today. It was just not eating after shipping. Finally succumbed to weakness and exhaustion today.

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The great thing about quarantine vendors is that they really take care of you when things like this happen. And Ocean Devotion is no different.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Building a fish cave around black ABS coupling:

going to use the Marco dust and liquid Cyanoacrylate.

Balancing the rock against the coupling.

final piece:

 

[Petcrazyson]

Not a good day for one of my new quarantined fish. I got two fish from a quarantine vendor in Southern California called Ocean Devotion. I got a Blue Jaw Trigger and a Two Bar Rabbit. Unfortunately the Rabbit fish passed today. It was just not eating after shipping. Finally succumbed to weakness and exhaustion today.

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The great thing about quarantine vendors is that they really take care of you when things like this happen. And Ocean Devotion is no different.

That’s such a shame that was such a pretty fish. I was looking forward to seeing it in the tank….

What does Ocean Devotion plan on doing?

 

[Petcrazyson]

Building a fish cave around black ABS coupling:

going to use the Marco dust and liquid Cyanoacrylate.

Balancing the rock against the coupling.

final piece:

For who is it for?

 

[Isaac Alves]

That’s such a shame that was such a pretty fish. I was looking forward to seeing it in the tank….

What does Ocean Devotion plan on doing?

Quarantine vendors seem to be very customer focused. Ocean Devotion LA is going to send me newly quarantined, fatter, Two Bar, in the next few weeks. Not even going to charge me shipping. I was very grateful.

Fishotel has a similar policy of 14 days of thriving.

 

[Isaac Alves]

For who is it for?

I felt I needed some extra "homes" for the fish. And I was curious is if this technique would work on the ABS.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Yesterday was not fun at all. The up and downs of reefing is very emotional for me. I‘m surprised how intensely stressful this hobby can be AND how extremely relaxing it can be as well. But yesterday it was definitely stressful. Some aquarists lean toward coral preference and some toward the fish. I lean towards fish so my emotional state is affected by that preference. And at the same time I love the idea of a mixed reef and that is how I’m approaching this build. But to have a mixed reef you need coral and to keep coral you need fish.

Adding fish is the most stressful part of this hobby to me — I fall in love with the fish. Which is why I try to minimize as much as possible the impact on the fish health. So I’ve been buying only from pre-quarantined fish vendors that are listed on the humble.fish forums.

But even then then you can’t completely control all of the factors to prevent issues.

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On May 10th, I received fish from two vendors, Ocean Devotion LA and Fishotel.com. I’ve only used fishotel.com because the owner, Jeff Dierkhising, is an active contributor on humble.fish forum — and all of his fish have been beautifully cared for and shipped perfectly every time.

I wanted to try another humble.fish vendor, Ocean Devotion LA, because they had a rabbit fish and a Trigger that I wanted to add to this tank build. The owner is Adam Sklar, and even though he’s not active on the forums helping others diagnose fish issues and treatments, he’s active in email and is communicative and open to having conversations. This I why I love these vendors on humble.fish. They are both hobbyists and technicians — and the love for the animals shows.

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The challenge with fish is that there are so many factors. And sometimes things will just happen outside of anyone’s control — the nature of nature I suppose.

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I ended up losing both of my new Trigger and Two Bar, for no explicable reason. I’m leaning toward shipping stress that manifested in something. You can read my documenting of this series of events here.

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The worst part now is that my beautiful Chocolate tang that I’ve had in this tank since November is showing signs of what might be black spot (turbellarian worms). But I’m not sure. Here’s a video of the spots:

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I’m not exactly sure how I will handle this today. But I did go ahead and pickup a 29 gallon AQueon from Petco and a Tidal HOB. I’ve got praziquantel ready to go if I decide to move him in today.

I’ll document the issues, challenges, and wins. But man this part of the hobby sucks.

 

[Isaac Alves]

Dosing 46ml of PraziPro into display tank today. To help with "Black Ich" that showed up on my Chocolate tang.

I’m documenting this specifically here at humble fish’s forum since they’re helping me through it.

HELP - Black Ich on Mimic Tang

I have about 183gallons of water. Do you have a recommendation to do that single dose? And I think you mentioned earlier that 1 dose might be enough? Well, the Prazipro dosage is 1 tsp (~5ml) per 20 gallons of water. You could play it safe and dose 9 teaspoons. Or 46ml would be more exact if...

humble.fish

 

[Isaac Alves]

Added Air stones: